History Museum

History Museum is a museum in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania. History Museum is situated nearby to the ruins Inspection Pit, as well as near the theater building Theater.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Steamtown National Historic Site and Electric City Trolley Museum.

Steamtown National Historic Site

Tourism office

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Steamtown National Historic Site is a railroad museum and heritage railroad located on 62.48 acres in downtown Scranton, Pennsylvania, at the site of the former Scranton yards of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad.

Electric City Trolley Museum

Museum

Photo: Peter Van den Bossche, CC BY-SA 2.0.

The Electric City Trolley Museum is a transport museum located in downtown Scranton, Pennsylvania, next to the Steamtown National Historic Site. The museum displays and operates restored trolleys and interurbans on former lines of the Lackawanna and Wyoming Valley Railroad, which are now owned by the government of Lackawanna County and operated by the Delaware-Lackawanna Railroad. Electric City Trolley Museum is situated 1,100 feet northwest of History Museum.

The Marketplace at Steamtown

Shopping center

Photo: Daniel Case, CC BY-SA 3.0.

The Marketplace at Steamtown is a shopping mall in Scranton, Pennsylvania. United States. It was conceived in the mid-1980s as the keystone of downtown revitalization, though the project was not completed until 1993. The Marketplace at Steamtown is situated 1,100 feet east of History Museum.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Scranton and Dunmore.

Scranton

Photo: Vasiliymeshko, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Scranton is a city in Northeastern Pennsylvania. It is near Wilkes-Barre, and is the seventh most populous city in the state. Today, it is perhaps best known as the setting of the hit TV show "The Office" and the birthplace of Joe Biden, the 46th President of the United States.

Dunmore

Photo: Doug Kerr, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Dunmore is a borough in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, United States, adjoining Scranton. It is part of Northeastern Pennsylvania and was settled in 1835 and incorporated in 1862.

Throop

Village

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Throop is a borough in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, United States, adjoining Scranton. Formerly, coal mining and silk manufacturing provided employment for the people of Throop, who numbered 2,204 in 1900 and 5,133 in 1910. Throop is situated 4½ miles northeast of History Museum.

History Museum

Type: Museum
Categories: building, tourism, historic site, and tourist attraction
Location: Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude

41.40695° or 41° 24′ 25″ north

Longitude

-75.67166° or 75° 40′ 18″ west

Open location code

87H6C84H+Q8

OpenStreetMap ID

way 445922020

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OpenStreetMap feature

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OpenStreetMap feature

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